7 Excellent WordPress Plugins to Power up Your Website

Flexibility is probably the most appreciated feature of WordPress as a CMS. It’s pretty functional itself in its core, but that doesn’t mean you can’t enhance it further. From simple sharing buttons to multi-functional analytics and optimization tools, there are tons of tools to supercharge your website and bring to it the functionality you need.
When choosing a plugin for your website there is one important thing you should keep in mind. Not all the plugins are created with quality and not all of them solve the problem they are supposed to solve. With this in mind I want to share with you a short list of the most feature-packed and high quality WordPress plugins,which I hand-picked myself through a long searching and testing.
On with the list!

Google Analytics WD

Google Analytics WD comes with the most advanced data reporting functionality. It allows you to access your website statistics right from the WordPress dashboard, and gives you comprehensive reports on your website audience and performance. Apart from that, the WordPress Google Analytics plugin allows you to access your AdSense, AdWords and E Commerce sales stats without leaving your website. You can set custom reports for the metrics and dimensions you’re most interested in, track custom dimensions and create and manage various goals for targeted activities. You can compare data from different periods with each other, and export the reports to CSV and PDF files if your want.
The plugin also comes with advanced alerts and Pushover notifications, data filtering functionality and allows you to display front-end reports to specific users.

Google Maps

With Google Maps WD plugin you can easily create unlimited responsive maps and add them to your website using a shortcode. The best thing about the plugin is that it comes with a live preview functionality which makes it easy to edit and customize the maps and saves you a lot of time. You can choose between the available map styles, add unlimited custom markers to them, apply various layers and overlays, and choose between the unique map themes and skins. The WordPress Google Maps comes with a store locator functionality and allows you to suggest walking, driving, bicycling and transit routes to your visitors to help them to get to specific locations.

Yoast SEO

Yoast SEO is right there to take your website optimization to the next level. It takes care about the overall optimization of your website and helps you create a keyword rich content. It basically helps you to choose a keyword and makes you use it everywhere that’s important for the proper optimization, in headlines , descriptions, meta descriptions, image tags and permalinks. With its snippet preview functionality it allows you to see what your posts and pages will look like in search results.

Form Maker

WordPress Form Maker plugin is the most feature-packed form generator that allows you to create and edit forms for any purpose you can think of. The WordPress form builder comes with a myriad of form fields that allow you to create forms for applications, registrations, questionnaires, surveys and for any other purpose. The forms can include multiple choice questions, password protected fields for signup forms, captcha/recaptcha protected fields, hidden fields, etc.The forms are responsive, easy to customize and come with 41 editable themes that you can use to give them outstanding look and feel. The plugin’s submissions section is easy to manage and provides simple statistical data about the submitted answer choices.

Sumo Me

Sumo Me is a bundle of some great tools that help you to grow your website. It comes with tools to grow your email list, share your content and analytics to help you to figure out which of the practices converts best on your website. The tools include list builder for email subscriptions, welcome mat, heat maps, social sharing , smart bar, highlighter, image sharer, etc. One of the best features of the plugin is its advanced A/B testing functionality. You can set it up in a few seconds and see which pop-up texts, sizes and colors work best for your visitors. The email form is fully customizable which makes it easy for you to adjust it to your website design.

Broken Link Checker

Broken links can do a lot of harm to your website rankings, so here is a great solution for it. Broken Link Checker will monitor your entire website, including posts, pages, comments section, blogroll, and custom fields and notify you if there are any broken links or missing images found. It prevents search engines from following those links and displays them differently in your posts. The best thing about it is that you can edit the links from the plugin’s page without the need to manually update the posts in which the links are found. If, however, the plugin has detected a broken link which you think is working properly, you can manually mark it as “not broken”. The plugin is highly configurable which allows you to adjust it to your website needs.

W3 Total Cache

W3 Total Cache will help you to improve user experience and search engine rankings of your website. It does so through caching , which results in reducing the page load time and increasing visitor time on page. It also improves the web server performance and helps it easily handle high traffic periods. Other of its features include mobile support, AMP support, minification of posts, pages and feeds, etc. W3 Total Cache is a great solution to supercharge your website performance without the need of making major changes in themes,plugins or the way you produce your content.

With so many plugin options WordPress gives you the possibility to pick up the right set of tools for your website. These 7 plugins mentioned above will be a great addition to it and will significantly enhance its functionalities. Whatever kind of a website you run you’ll surely find a good pick for it.

Gayane Mar is the founder of WPCapitan.com, a WordPress enthusiast and blogger. She is a contributing author to a plenty of well known WordPress related blogs and enjoys sharing her experience and expertise to help people with WordPress.

WPCapitan focuses on all things WordPress, how-tos,reviews and plugins, news and more.

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Gayane Mar is the founder of WPCapitan.com, a WordPress enthusiast and blogger. She is a contributing author to a plenty of well known WordPress related blogs and enjoys sharing her experience and expertise to help people with WordPress.
WPCapitan focuses on all things WordPress, how-tos,reviews and plugins, news and more.

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